North Korean state media avoided reporting on the shocking U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this week, even as it covered European criticism of Donald Trump’s stated desire to control Greenland.

While Pyongyang’s foreign ministry rapidly issued a statement condemning the U.S. military operation against Caracas, state media outlets have completely hid the news of Maduro’s abduction from domestic audiences.

The omission likely stems from the DPRK’s discomfort at the loss of one of its few allies in the Western Hemisphere, and at what it might say